From the Editor’s Desk

From the Editor’s Desk 3 Happy Summer! With so much going on with Montana The Magazine of Western History, my annual winter update just can’t contain the news. Moving forward, you can expect my dispatches in both the winter and the summer issues of the magazine. The most obvious of happenings relates to the construction of the Montana Heritage Center and the remodel of the Pioneer and Veterans Memorial Building . The Montana Historical Society (MTHS) staff has moved out of our offices into an alternate space until our new home is ready for occupancy. While it’s easy to focus on the tremendous effort of moving and planning, we look forward to expanded exhibit spaces, modern offices and facilities, and an updated research room and library,all opening in 2025.While we are closed, it is a wonderful time to visit our other state and local museums—like the Montana Museum of Art and Culture in Missoula,opening its new building in 2023 and featured in this issue. Meanwhile, we will continue to bring you the quarterly magazine and new books from our press. My first good news to share is that we hired a new associate editor. We are fortunate to have Dr. Cody Dodge Ewert joining our team. Cody grew up near Power, Montana, a small community north of Great Falls. He received a BA and MA in history from the University of Montana. After completing his PhD in history at New York University in 2018, he took a job as associate editor at the South Dakota State Historical Society. There, he edited a wide range of books on the history of the northern Plains and served as managing editor of the quarterly journal South Dakota History. Cody has written articles for scholarly journals, including Montana, and, in April 2022, published a book based on his doctoral research with Johns Hopkins University Press. Additionally, I’d like to welcome our newest editorial board member, Dr. Patrick Lozar, a dean of the Native American Studies division at Salish Kootenai College. Patrick grew up in Polson, Montana, and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Reservation. Patrick earned a BA in history from Montana State University.He went on to complete his MA in ­history from the University of Oregon and a PhD in history from the University of Washington. His ­ dissertation focusedontheexperiencesofIndigenousnationswith the Canada-United States border that cut through their homelands in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries , which he is revising into a book manuscript. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including Ethnohistory and Montana. Before returning to Montana in 2022, ­ Patrick was an assistant professor at the University of Victoria. I also want to congratulate two of our recent award winners. Patrick Hoehne, MTHS Bradley Research Fellow and author of “Apostles of Disorder:Montana Merchants, Vigilantes, and the Interconnectivity of Extralegal Violence” (Autumn 2022), was named a Spur Finalist for best short nonfiction by the ­Western Writers of America. We also concluded the 2023 Emerging Scholar Contest, now in its fourth year. This year’s judges selected Alex Miller’s submission, “From Studies to Center: Iterations of Avalanche Research in Utah and Colorado, 1945–1985,” to be published in the Autumn 2023 magazine. Finally, I’d like to pay tribute to two friends we recently lost.Dr.Paula Petrik was a pioneer in western women’s history. She served on our editorial board for thirty-one years and passionately advocated for the magazine during that time.She published in both the magazine and with the MTHS Press. My introduction to Paula’s brilliant work was her Montana article “Not a Love Story: Bordeaux vs. Bordeaux” (Spring 1991). I assigned it to many of my students, and I’d argue it stands as one of the best explorations of divorce law in a western history journal. I was also saddened to learn that Chuck Johnson, longtime member of the MTHS Board of Trustees and beloved political journalist,passed.Chuck served on the committee that hired me five years ago. From that point onward he was a generous, kind, and savvy mentor. Chuck often served as...

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